Well there wasn't much. For surgery instead of using chlorophyll to put people to sleep they used whiskey.
It was used as a medicine in the Civil War. It treated infections from wounds. No antibiotics were available then!
tHEY USED A LOT OF MEDICINE, likeme!
Bad ones
With regards to the US Civil War, many historians prefer to use the term of The War Between the States. For some historians, what is generally called the US Civil War, is not an accurate use of the term "civil war".
The same type of medicines used in the US.
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Most of the medicine was made from nature, and alcoholic beverages!
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The phone number of the National Museum Of Civil War Medicine is: 301-695-1864.
Amputation was the deadly medicine in the English Civil War. Infection would often sit in and kill the soldier after losing a limb.
During the, Civil War(1861-1865) medicine was unused because the doctors did not know much about bacteriology and were unaware of what caused disease. Surgeons often went days without washing their hands or instruments,thereby passing germs from one patient to another as he treated them.